Definitions for shuffle

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shuffle shuf·fle

Spelling: [shuhf-uh l]

IPA: /ˈʃʌf əl/

Shuffle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in shuffle (effhlsu).

Definitions for shuffle

noun

1. a scraping movement; dragging gait.
2. an evasive trick; evasion.
3. an act or instance of shuffling.
4. Cards. a shuffling of cards in a pack. the right or turn to shuffle preparatory to dealing:
5. a dance in which the feet are shuffled along the floor.

Verb phrases

1. shuffle off, to thrust aside; get rid of. to move away by, or as if by, shuffling:

verb (used with object)

1. to move (one's feet) along the ground or floor without lifting them.
2. to perform (a dance) with such movements.
3. to move (an object or objects) this way and that.
4. to put, thrust, or bring trickily, evasively, or haphazardly (usually followed by in, into, out, etc.):
5. to mix (cards in a pack) so as to change the relative positions.
6. to jumble together, mix, or interchange the positions of (objects).

verb (used without object)

1. to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
2. to scrape the feet over the floor in dancing.
3. to move clumsily (usually followed by into):
4. to act underhandedly or evasively with respect to a stated situation (often followed by in, into, or out of):
5. to intermix so as to change the relative positions of cards in a pack.

Origin of shuffle

1525-35; Low German schuffeln to walk clumsily or with dragging feet, mix (cards); akin to shovel

Examples for shuffle

He does not shuffle or prevaricate, dodge or skulk; but is honest, upright, and straightforward.

And forthwith, as one who may not be resisted, he swept up the cards and began to shuffle.

Well, if this particular deal had failed, he must shuffle the cards and deal again.

Obama has latched on to the failure of the embargo to topple the Castros as justification to shuffle the deck.

Whatever explanation of our sufferings and failures there may be we must not shuffle them off on God.

He instead had to work for it, fake it, steal it, copy it, shuffle and fight.

He started to shuffle the cards and Mortson pulled up a chair.

Near the door thousands of stilettos slide and shuffle on black ice, somehow always keeping their immaculate balance.

The cornet and bass-viol had put in an appearance, but the pianist had been lost in the shuffle.

One thing is clear: The shuffle to replace Cantor has already begun.